
Garrett Downs has joined CNBC.com as a politics reporter based in Washington, covering Congress and industries like agriculture.
Most recently, Downs spent more than three years at Politico, writing the “Morning Agriculture” newsletter and working as a congressional reporter for E&E News.
Before that, he was a reporter for Agri-Pulse and Inside U.S. Trade and started his career at the New York Post.
He received his degree in journalism from St. John’s University.